dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) (08/08/89)
While UNIX is obviously the 'right' environment to run news, we're about to
have a need to access news from MS-DOS. I've read the recent discussion
about how hard it might be to port news to MS-DOS, but I don't want the
whole system, just rn (or some other user interface of similar
functionality), and of course nntp. This in turn might run over one of the
various MS-DOS TCP/IP packages to an nntp server in the usual way.
Has anyone done this?
Of course we could simply telnet or kermit to a "real" computer, but nntp
plus a local reader seems much more sensible if it can be done.
Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK
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